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by wewxjfq 10mo ago
It's wild that every comment section about China these days must paint the picture of these rabid anti-Chinese Westerners who are saying that China is an eternal backwater, yet one never sees actual comments like this, and how all of W
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by wewxjfq 10mo ago
> I still have no idea why westerners assumed "Chinese can't innovate, they can only replicate". Did they? For how often online comment sections about China need to point this out, I can't remember seeing this claim b
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by wewxjfq 11mo ago
Is what makes you feel so terrible when you're sick, that's why you don't want to get it involved. Like a car driver would rather not see the seat belt and air bags do their life-saving thing. Fun fact: Up to the Civil War or
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
There can't be a blanket consent. You cannot consent to contracts you've never seen. You can't waive your rights away. Browsers could only implement a blanket deny, but that wouldn't stop websites from showing cookie ban
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
Did JD Vance care about these subtleties in Munich?
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
There was de facto no investment into nuclear energy across all countries since the early 80s and it's beyond tiring to see online commenters adamantly trying to blame that on a scheming cabal of Green politicians, when Green parties n
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
> They were guessing it contained upwards of 20,000 volumes. By comparison, Ernest Hemingway, considered a voracious book collector, left behind a personal library of 9,000. Reminds me: I once read a listicle about famous people with lar
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
A sunburn is what you want to avoid and it's easier to get when you stayed indoors the whole year and only go outside when the sun is out full blast. I personally think this modern lifestyle is one of the reasons people get more skin c
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
The way I see it: If you live where your ancestors lived for thousands of years and if you make sure your skin gets gradually attuned to the sun each year, you probably get more health benefits. But beware if you're of Northern Europea
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
I have no horse in the AI race or in the US-China rivalry, but at the time the hype felt weird. There was so much gloating that rubbed me the wrong way, and frankly, I notice that in plenty of China-related discussions. I always wonder: Why
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
They ran a TV channel without broadcasting license. Which country allows this?
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
Go was a breath of fresh air and pretty usable right from the start. It felt like a neat little language with - finally - a modern standard library. Fifteen years ago, that was a welcome change. I think it's no surprise that Go and Nod
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
Good things for the Internet? I stop visiting sites that nag me with their verification friction. They are the only reason I replaced Stack Exchange with LLMs.
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
It's surreal and dismaying to see such a bogus comment at the top, especially since the BBC video about the North Korean phone is free of judgement, while they (and many other Western news) do report on Western surveillance critically,
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
I don't mind captchas to protect forms and such, but given that so many sites want captchas solved for the first GET request, I really wonder how much more CO2 this is going to produce. And when I see "invisible mode", I&#x27
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
I think German poetry can be very elegant and English poems feel dull in comparison. At the same time, the plainness of English makes it much better suited for songs. Lyrical German quickly sounds pretentious.
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
I think they should cast a wider net. Toxicity might discover trolls in the original sense, i.e. individuals seeking a dopamine rush. The trolls I have in mind try to steer the narrative on certain topics with comments that aren't rude
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
I'm a disagreer and I have to disagree with the authors: disagreeing is not trolling, it's countering trolls. Trolls usually flood the zone with comments that seem elaborate but are ultimately low effort. They know persistence is
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
Germany does not receive Russian pipeline gas and has banned Russian LNG from its ports. It receives a tiny share of Russian gas from Dutch and Belgian ports, but to my knowledge Germany has no control over this. France on the other hand is
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
It seems to have a bus factor of 1.
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by wewxjfq 1y ago
This still stings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373
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by wewxjfq 2y ago
Rust is no panacea and rewriting a web application in Rust should not lead to any performance gains per se, unless your web application is doing number crunching in the mouse move handler. In most cases, you should be lucky to see no perfor
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by wewxjfq 2y ago
Contributed what? Their nuclear exit caused two nuclear power plants to shut down, which were the oldest and smallest in Germany. They had a combined capacity of a just 1 GW - utterly meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Even when the
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by wewxjfq 2y ago
Given that Russia had troubles supplying gas via pipeline (remember the five NS1 pumps that failed and the sixth pump that had to be shut down?) and given that Baltic infrastructure is constantly being damaged, the more expensive LNG should
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by wewxjfq 2y ago
There's climate reanalysis, which combines historical observations with weather models to get clean data of past weather conditions, which is then used by researchers for various purposes. Most notably is ERA5 by ECMWF. [0] https:&#x2
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by wewxjfq 2y ago
The problem with printer recommendations is that many vocal supporters are running older models that work like charm, so when a good company becomes enshittified, there will be some timelag until consensus shifts. I mean I could still prais
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by wewxjfq 2y ago
If you think Chernobyl was orchestrated by the KGB, then yes. Sadly, I knew right away were this was heading. Ironically, Russia is more involved in pushing this false narrative than they were ever involved in the anti-nuclear power movemen
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by wewxjfq 2y ago
As all conspiracy theories, this provides a simple explanation to circumstances that otherwise require complex answers, but it holds no water. The KGB was ineffective and inept. It didn't reach the masses, it didn't influence publ
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by wewxjfq 2y ago
Europe has the ECMWF which is the leading meteorological research institute with the best forecasts in the world. Apart from that, all the large national weather services in Europe are top notch. In comparison, the US weather services are i
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by wewxjfq 2y ago
Let me quote Harry S. Truman: > If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

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